“The highly customized nature of cell and gene therapies shows great promise for patient care, but it also introduces logistical challenges that make mass manufacturing uniquely complex,” says Kieran Murphy, president and CEO, GE Healthcare Life Sciences. “GE’s multiangle approach to driving the innovation in this industry will help to more quickly and efficiently bring cell and gene therapies to the patients who anxiously await them.”

Headquartered in the Bay Area, the company can be found online at http://www.vineti.com (@vinetiworks).


About GE Ventures
GE Ventures identifies, scales and accelerates ideas that will help make the world work better. Focused on the areas of software, advanced manufacturing, energy and health care, GE Ventures combines equity investing, new business creation, licensing and technology transfer to deliver an innovation platform designed to drive growth for partners and GE. For more information, visit http://www.geventures.com, or follow on Twitter (@GE_Ventures) and LinkedIn.

About Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic Ventures
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit organization committed to medical research and education, and providing expert, whole-person care to everyone who needs healing. For more information, visit http://www.mayoclinic.org/about-mayo-clinic or http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/.

Mayo Clinic Ventures serves Mayo Clinic by finding partners that can bring Mayo’s inventions and clinical knowledge to the marketplace to improve medicine everywhere. Mayo Clinic Ventures’ mission is straightforward: commercialize Mayo Clinic technologies for the benefit of patients worldwide, while generating revenue to support clinical practice, research and education at Mayo Clinic.

Contacts
GE Ventures
Kristin Schwarz, +1 646-682-5601
Kristin.Schwarz@ge.com
or
Mayo Clinic Ventures
Duska Anastasijevic, +1 507-284-5005
newsbureau@mayo.edu

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